Chapter Four
“You’re so bad!” Liv slapped playfully at her new husband as he carried her into their suite and deposited her on the bed. “Making me leave the reception early—we barely got to cut the cake. Couldn’t you have waited a few more minutes?”
“No.” Baird’s eyes glowed gold with lust. “Not after waiting a whole damn week. You really know how to torture a male. But that’s all right.” He gave her a hot grin. “Because I’m about to return the favor.”
“What…what are you going to do?” Liv heard the breathless quality in her own voice but she couldn’t seem to help it—didn’t want to help it. All she wanted was the male in front of her.
Baird leaned over the bed and lifted her chin to look into her eyes. “I’m going to bond you all over again,” he rumbled. “Gonna fill your sweet little cunt with my cock and fuck you all night long. So I hope you weren’t planning on going back to the party any time soon.”
Liv’s breath caught in her throat. “I don’t want to go back,” she whispered.
“Good.” He straightened up and crossed his arms over his broad chest. “That dress is special to you, right?”
“Of course.” Liv ran a hand over the white lace. “It was my mother’s.”
His eyes softened. “And you look beautiful in it, Lilenta. But you need to get out of it now.”
It was an order, not a request and the low growling voice he used when he said it made Liv’s heart start beating a mile a minute. It reminded her of the way he’d spoken after she had gone to visit Jillian the first time—disobeying his orders and winding up in the unmated males’ territory. Baird had been forced to show his ownership of her in front of a whole group of warriors and afterwards he’d taken her back to his suite and commanded her to strip so that he could taste her. It was both an embarrassing memory and a hot one. And it made Liv all the more eager to do what he wanted now.
But there was no reason he had to know that.
Lifting her chin she looked him in the eye. “So you think now that we’re officially bonded you can tell me exactly what to do?”
The look in his eyes was so hot it was molten. “What I’m telling you, Lilenta, is to take that damn dress off before I rip it off.” Leaning down, he grasped her shoulders and pulled her up for a heated kiss that left her panting and breathless.
“Baird…” she protested, struggling weakly. She had never seen him quite so hungry before, even during the first time they’d made love.
“I don’t think you understand exactly how much I need you, Olivia,” he growled softly, looking her in the eyes. “Up ‘til now I’ve been holding back because I didn’t want to scare you off at the last minute.”
“What? Don’t be silly,” she protested. “You could never scare me off.”
“Not now, I can’t.” He flashed her a hungry grin. “Because now you’re mine forever. And I need you, Lilenta. Need to be inside you for a long, long time tonight.” He kissed her again, running his big hands over her body, cupping her breasts and then moving down to press hard against her sex. “But before I do that, I want to taste you. So get naked now or I’m going to make you naked.”
Liv’s heart was going crazy and her mouth was almost too dry to answer. She couldn’t believe that Baird had been holding back on her. But the desperate need she saw in those glowing amber eyes proved he was telling the truth. What agony she must have put him through, denying him for the past week so that the night after their bonding would be special. Well, I’ll make it up to him tonight, she promised herself. But all in good time.
“Let me go in the bathroom and take my dress off,” she told Baird with a little smile. “And in the mean time, maybe you should start getting naked yourself.”
“Just hurry.” He gave her another smoldering look. “I need to lick your pussy and feel you come all over my face.”
His words made her weak in the knees but she tried not to show it as she sauntered past him to the bathroom. She had something hidden there that she hoped would make the night even more memorable.
With a little maneuvering she was out of her wedding dress and into something a lot more comfortable—and much less confining. Though he’d told her to get naked, she decided to disobey orders and wear the naughty little ensemble she’d been saving for their wedding night.
It was something Kat had helped her pick out via Think-me conversation just the week before. As Liv shimmied into it, she reflected that her friend really did have good taste—too bad she didn’t have a Kindred warrior of her own. But then, maybe that would change by the time she got done with the reception. Liv hadn’t been so completely caught up in her own bliss that she’d missed the little details around her—such as the tension between Sophie and Sylvan or the hungry way the two Twin Kindred that Baird had said were his “second brothers” had been eyeing Kat.
But the only detail she was interested in right now was getting her new hubby all hot and bothered. Eyeing herself in the viewer she was sure her outfit would do the trick.
It consisted of a white lace quarter-cup bustier with panties and garters to match and sheer white thigh-high hose. Black spike heeled pumps so high she would never have dared to wear them out in public completed the look, making her legs look fabulously long and lean.
Liv felt deliciously exposed as she adjusted the tiny cups of the bustier which didn’t even cover her nipples. They just pushed her breasts up and out, making them look like some exotic fruit on a tray. As a final touch, she took down her elaborate up-do and shook out her hair, letting it swing free around her bare shoulders. Then, feeling exquisitely naughty, she opened the bathroom door and made her way back to Baird.
He was sitting on the bed waiting for her but when she came in, he stood at once. Liv’s eyes were drawn to him just as they had been the very first time he’d taken off his shirt to drape it around her. The muscular planes of his chest and abdomen led down to a truly impressive cock which had scared the daylights out of her the first time she’d seen it. Now she couldn’t wait to feel it inside her.
“Well?” She gave him a cool little smile as she sauntered into the room. “Like what you see?” The cool air teased her exposed nipples as she moved, her breasts jiggling gently as she swayed her hips provocatively.
“Gods, Lilenta.” His deep voice was hoarse with lust as his gaze traveled over her body. “You look amazing.”
“Thank you.” She smiled up at him—even though she was wearing the ridiculously high heels, he was still several inches taller.
He frowned. “But I thought I told you to get naked.”
“You did. But I thought this would be more fun. And look…” Spreading her legs, she parted the open seam that ran down the middle of the panties to reveal her bare sex. “So you don’t have to rip them off,” she explained, smiling. Baird had ruined a number of her favorite panties with his caveman ways and though she always enjoyed it at the time, it was leaving Liv woefully short of sexy underwear.
He gave her a stern look. “Just because I don’t have to rip them off to get to you doesn’t mean they’re not coming down.”
Liv put a hand on her hip. “What are you talking about?”
“I’m talking about how you disobeyed a direct order.” He raised an eyebrow. “Tell me something, Olivia, have you ever heard of the Law of Conduct?”
She frowned. “No, of course not. What are you talking about?”
“It’s a Kindred law which says every warrior is responsible for the good behavior of his bride.”
“Good behavior? What does that have to do with anything?”
“Basically it gives me the right to punish you for disobeying orders or doing anything that might endanger yourself or others,” he rumbled. “Remember how you wound up at the unmated males territory back during our claiming period after I specifically told you not to leave the suite? I would have been well within my rights under the Law of Conduct to punish you then.”
“As a matter of fact, I was just thinking of that a minute ago.” Liv raised her chin. “But I’m not endangering anyone by wearing this.” She motioned to the white lace outfit.
Baird grinned. “But you did disobey my orders. And I’m afraid you’ll have to pay for that, Lilenta. Pay dearly.”
“What…what do you mean? What are you going to do?” The look on his face was making her distinctly nervous. She’d come out in the naughty little outfit meaning to seduce him, just as she had the first time they had really made love. But now it looked like Baird intended to turn the tables on her.
“I’m going to spank you,” he said matter-of-factly. Walking back to the bed, he seated himself and patted his lap. “Come here.”
“You have got to be kidding me.” Liv frowned. “Look, Baird, I know I swore to ‘honor and obey’ you but that was just for the ceremony. I’m not actually going to let you put me over your knee and give me a spanking.”
“Oh, no?” Quick as a flash he was pulling her onto his lap. As always, it was surprising to Liv how fast he could move for such a large man. Probably his warrior’s reflexes helped him—but it was going to take more than fast reflexes to get him out of this if he didn’t stop now .
“Hey, let me go!” She struggled against him but Baird held her down easily with one hand. With the other, he parted the seam in her lace panties and began a slow stroking caress of her bare buttocks. “Baird!” she protested but his large, warm hand was taking some of the wind out of her sales. “Baird, seriously, don’t .”
“Don’t punish you or don’t tease you while I do it?” he asked in a low voice. He sounded half amused, half serious but he still didn’t let her off his lap. Then, with no warning, he gave her bare ass a sharp smack .
Liv yelped and wiggled in protest, trying not to notice how she could feel the broad head of his cock rubbing against the top of her mound with the motion. “I don’t…I’m not into this,” she protested. “And I’m not some little girl who needs a spanking to be made to behave.”
“You look pretty little to me,” he returned, giving her another swat. “And maybe I like spanking you.” Obviously he wasn’t hitting her nearly as hard as he could—though the blows stung, they were hardly painful. Still, it was the principle of the thing that Liv objected to.
“You can’t do this,” she protested. “I…I don’t like it.”
“Oh, no?” Baird shifted on the bed, repositioning her on his lap and spreading her thighs so that the head of his cock was now rubbing right between her pussy lips. Liv gasped as she felt him part her slippery folds and slide against her clit. The open-crotch panties were beginning to seem like a mistake but it was too late to do anything about it now.
“No, I…I don’t,” she gasped but then Baird gave her ass another slap and she jumped and squeaked. The movement rubbed his cock over her pussy again, making the squeak turn into a moan.
“Are you sure you don’t like this, Olivia?” he growled softly, spanking her again and then again, rubbing against her each time until she was moaning steadily. “Sure you want me to stop spanking you?”
“It…it’s un…undignified,” she finally managed to gasp out. God, between the sharp little pain in her ass and the delicious tingling in her clit, she could barely think, let alone talk!
“But delicious,” he murmured. “I can feel how hot and wet your little pussy is getting for me. And it’s not just because I’m rubbing against you, either.”
“Why…why else would it be?” Liv demanded, trying to keep some of her dignity.
“I think it’s because, whether you admit it or not, you like this,” he told her. “Not the pain maybe, but being held down and dominated. Punished.”
“I…I do not.” Liv tried to sound indignant. “I’m a modern woman. I don’t need anyone to pun…puni…” But she couldn’t get the word out because every time she tried, Baird gave her another firm but loving slap on the behind. She felt like her cheeks must be on fire by now but strangely enough, her pussy was also wetter than it had ever been. She was just wondering how long this was going to go on when Baird suddenly repositioned her on her hands and knees on the bed.
Instinctively Liv tried to get up but he held her down, trapping her arms gently behind her back with one hand.
The awkward position pressed her cheek to the mattress and put her ass high in the air, with her legs spread wide to show the white lace panties. Their crotch was still open, putting her pussy on display in a way she found both embarrassing and incredibly erotic. She could feel her cunt lips parting, opening to show her slippery pink folds and her clit which throbbed deliciously in the center.
“Very nice,” Baird rumbled, tracing the outer edge of the white lace with one gentle finger. “You know, I really do like these. It’s going to be a real pleasure to fuck you in them.”
“Baird!” Liv wiggled appealingly, trying and failing to break his grip. He had her exactly where he wanted her and it was clear he wasn’t letting go. But even worse than holding her down was the way he was teasing her. That one, slow finger traveling around and around her center, without ever actually touching her where she needed him the most, was maddening. She could feel her clit throbbing for release and her pussy felt so empty . God, she needed him in her!
“What’s wrong, Lilenta? Discovering that you like being punished more than you thought?” Baird leaned over her from behind and she suddenly felt his cock nudging the inside of her thigh. “Admit it,” he breathed in her ear. “You like it—hell, you fucking love it. Being held down. Being forced to submit.”
“No,” Liv protested wiggling again, “No, I…I never…”
“Don’t lie to me.” His voice was a growl. “I can tell—I’ve never smelled you so hot before. Besides, how do you explain this?” His finger stopped tracing her panties and slipped deep into her pussy instead, drawing a strangled cry from Liv’s throat. “That’s right, Lilenta,” he told her, thrusting in deep, using two fingers this time. “Ride my fingers the way you’re going to ride my cock. Let yourself go while I fingerfuck you.”
If anyone had ever told Liv she would enjoy being held down and taken, she would have called them a liar. She was a strong, independent woman who liked taking charge during sex. But this…this was an entirely new experience. And though part of her was still outraged at Baird’s actions, another, deeper part couldn’t deny that she had never been so turned on in her life. She couldn’t help herself—she had to wiggle and moan, pumping her hips in time with his thrusts as he pushed her toward the peak.
But before she could get anywhere near orgasm, Baird disappointed her by removing his fingers.
“What?” she tried to look around at him but he was still holding her firmly down.
“Uh-uh-uh, Olivia, I’m not done with you yet,” he murmured, giving her ass another sharp spank. “Not nearly done. I want to fuck you in this position. Want to watch while my cock fills you up and my mating fist swells in your tight little cunt. I’m going to fill you over and over again tonight, do you know that?” he continued, leaning over to murmur in her ear. “Gonna fuck you deep and hard and come in you again and again until your pussy is overflowing with my seed.”
“Please!” Liv gasped but she didn’t know if she was begging him to stop or to hurry up and start. Being so out of control was affecting her strangely, making her crazy. Her pussy throbbed at his dirty words and she could feel her juices leaking down her thighs in a mute sign of submission.
“But before I do all that,” Baird continued, stroking her pussy again lightly with his fingertips. “Before I fill you up and fuck you, I’m going to taste your sweet little cunt again and lap up all this delicious honey you’re making.”
Liv shivered under his light touch. “You…you’re going to taste me like…like this?” He’d never gone down on her from behind before, though once or twice he’d had Liv sit on his face and ride his tongue. That had seemed exotic enough to her but this…letting him lick her from behind just seemed dirty. Forget about letting him though, whispered a little voice in her head. He’s going to do it whether you want him to or not. The thought made her darkly excited and she couldn’t help quivering as Baird knelt behind her and spread her thighs even wider.
“Just like this,” he growled. “And you’re going to hold still and let me lick your pussy like a good girl or I’m going to spank you again. Do you understand me, Olivia?”
The dominance in his deep voice did something to her—touched some buried part of her psyche that might never have seen the light of day otherwise. Though it embarrassed her greatly, Liv could feel her pussy getting even wetter, her folds swollen and hot as she waited for his tongue.
“I said, do you understand me?” Baird barked and she jumped, realizing that he wanted a verbal answer.
“Y-yes,” she almost whispered, pressing her cheek hard into the mattress.
“Yes, Sir, ” he corrected her sternly. “Say it, Olivia. In fact, I want you to do more than that. Say, ‘I promise to hold still and let you lick my pussy until I come, Sir.’”
“I…” Liv felt her cheeks heating. “I can’t say that, ” she objected.
“Oh, yes you can.” He gave her another stinging slap on the rear. “Say it, Olivia or so help me I’ll go down on you all night and you won’t get to feel my cock in your tight little cunt until I get done making you come over and over.”
As much as she loved it when Baird serviced her with his tongue, Liv loved having him in her even more. She knew it had to do with his mating scent and the need it created in her to have his thick cock filling her, marking her as his—but she didn’t care. She only knew what she craved. Slowly, haltingly she whispered the words he’d demanded she say. “I…I promise to hold still and let you…let you lick my pussy until I…I come. Sir ,” she added quickly before he could say anything.
“That’s good. Very good,” he rumbled approvingly. “Now get ready, Lilenta. I’m going to taste you.”
With the broad pads of his thumbs he parted her pussy lips, exposing her clit completely and making her want to squirm. But she had promised to hold still, to let him taste her, so she tried not to move too much, even when she felt his warm, wet tongue invading and opening her.
Baird licked from the top of her slit to the tender entrance—long, slow licks that somehow managed to avoid her clit each time. Liv knew he was building her up, teasing her on purpose but it was almost more than she could take.
“God, Baird, please…you’re making me insane ,” she gasped as his tongue continued to slip to one side or the other of her sensitive button without actually making contact.
“That’s because you need this as much as I do,” he growled. “More, even. This punishment has been a long time in coming but I think we both know you deserve it.”
“So this is what you meant when you said you’d been…ah! Holding back,” she gasped as he licked her again.
“No, this is what I meant.” Suddenly she felt his thick thumb slip deep into her pussy and swirl around, as though he was gathering her moisture. Before Liv could ask what he was doing, she felt him withdraw it and slide gently upwards until he was just pressing against her rosebud.
“Baird?” There was real panic in her voice now as she tried to look back and see him. “Baird, what are you doing? You know I don’t—”
“Don’t worry, Lilenta,” His deep voice was soothing even as he pressed against the tight ring of muscle that guarded her nether entrance. “I know you’re a virgin here. I’ll be careful.”
“It’s not an issue of being careful,” Liv protested as she felt the tip of his thumb slip inside her. “It’s just that I don’t, uh, do this. I mean—”
“Now you do,” he interrupted her in that commanding tone that made her weak in the knees despite her fear.
“But…but I…” Liv couldn’t finish.
“It’s okay,” Baird continued in a softer voice. “It’s all right, Olivia. Just open up and let me in. Just wanna fingerfuck your sweet little ass while I taste your pussy. I swear I won’t go any further.”
“So…just your thumb?” She was still clenched tightly closed, resisting the intimate invasion.
“I promise,” he murmured, pressing a little deeper. “Let me in, Lilenta. Trust me and I swear you won’t be sorry.”
That deep, soft voice was more than she could fight against. Baird could have forced the issue easily but she knew he would never do that. Suddenly she understood that he wanted her submission even more than he wanted to touch her in this new way. By opening to him here, she was giving him a part of herself that she’d never given anyone. By allowing him to pierce her virgin entrance, she was admitting that she wanted him everywhere inside her. And I do. Want him everywhere—even if it’s a kind of scary at first.
Though it was another thing Liv would have sworn she would never do, she knew she was going to give in. With a shuddering sigh she relaxed her muscles as well as she could and submitted.
Baird must have felt the release of tension because he stroked her back soothingly with his other hand. “Good girl,” he murmured softly in her ear. “Such a good girl to let me fingerfuck your sweet ass, Olivia.”
As he spoke she felt his thumb breach her completely, sliding deep into her rosebud and filling her in a way she’d never been filled before. It felt strange and a little scary but not as dirty as she had feared. After all, she’d just gotten through vowing that she would give herself to him completely in front of a crowd full of witnesses. She just hadn’t known she’d be called upon to fulfill her wedding vows quite so soon.
“That’s good,” Baird murmured again. Liv felt his hot breath on the back of her thighs and knew he was about to taste her again. She just hoped he stopped teasing her by avoiding her clit. She was wound so tight with sexual tension she felt like she was about to explode .
Baird seemed to hesitate for a long time and then suddenly dove in again. Even knowing what was coming couldn’t stop the moan from breaking past her lips as his tongue pressed deeply into her pussy, tasting her juices right from the source. God, being filled this way in both her pussy and ass was so strange and yet she had never been so hot. She felt opened completely and the way he finally sucked her swollen clit into his mouth as he thrust deeply into her rosebud only heightened the sensation. In fact, the pleasure was so intense she felt herself reaching the peak almost immediately.
Baird must have felt her quiver because he pulled back for just a moment. “That’s right, Lilenta, come,” he urged her in a voice rough with lust. “Come on my tongue while I fuck your sweet ass.”
His breath was hot against her open pussy and the moment his tongue lashed over her clit again, Liv felt herself letting go and obeying his order. “ Baird. ” she gasped as the orgasm rolled over her. She could feel herself clenching around him, squeezing him as though her body was begging for more. Because I do need more, she thought half deliriously as Baird rode out her orgasm, eagerly lapping the fresh honey that flowed from her pussy. I need him inside me. Not just his tongue or his fingers—I need his cock, filling me up, coming in me…
Baird obviously had the same need. As soon as the last aftershocks of her pleasure ended, he pulled out of her and positioned himself against the entrance of her pussy. “Gonna fuck you now, Lilenta,” he rasped, rubbing the broad head of his shaft over her slippery folds. “Need to fill you up with my cock and mating fist. Need to mark you, bond you to me all over again.”
“Please! God, please, yes .” Liv heard herself begging shamelessly but she couldn’t seem to stop it. Couldn’t seem to do anything but spread her thighs wider in submission for the thick rod that was already invading her pussy.
She’d had him in her before—many times already. But still she felt the slight, stretching pain that came with accommodating such a large male. It was a good feeling—the feeling of being owned and opened and she welcomed it completely as he slid smoothly into her, inch by thick inch. But even when the head of his cock touched bottom inside her, she knew he wasn’t completely in. She still had his mating fist—the thick ridge of muscle that surrounded the base of his cock nearly doubling its diameter—to take inside her pussy.
The mating fist was a physical characteristic only Beast Kindred had. Its purpose was to swell inside the female the warrior was fucking and tie them together for hours until enough cum had been pumped into her pussy to ensure a complete bonding. Liv had been deathly afraid of it at first and she was still a little nervous as she felt the thick ridge pressing against her entrance. But Baird’s body instinctively made chemicals that worked on hers, allowing her to open enough to take him in, though it was a very, very tight fit.
Baird knew she was still a little shy of his fist and he stopped his forward motion to stroke her back soothingly. “You all right?” he murmured. “Can you handle it, Lilenta?”
“Yes…” Liv whispered, spreading her thighs wider, trying to be open enough to take him. “I’m okay. I’ve had you in me before.”
“I’m especially thick tonight, though.” He sounded apologetic. “Been needing you so bad this past week. I’m afraid you might have a hard time taking me in.”
Remind me never to deprive him again, no matter how good or romantic the reason, Liv thought a bit wildly. But she was never one to back down from a challenge and besides, she needed him in her every bit as much as he needed to be there.
“It’s okay,” she whispered, pressing back against him, deliberately spreading her pussy for his cock. “Put it in me, Baird. I…I want you to.”
“And I want to, Lilenta. Just don’t want to hurt you.”
“You won’t,” she insisted. “Go ahead Baird, fuck me.”
Her words seemed to inflame him beyond reason. With a low growl, he gripped her hips and pressed deep and hard inside her.
Liv moaned in mingled pleasure and pain as the thick mating fist, swollen with his pent up need, finally breached her pussy and entered her, filling her completely. God, it hurt so good she could hardly breathe. There was nothing better than this, than submitting to the man she loved, opening herself for him and taking him—all of him—into her body.
Baird groaned at the pleasure of entering her but once in, he held perfectly still for a moment, caressing her hips. “Gods, Lilenta, ” he murmured. “Wish you could see this. My cock buried so deep inside you and your little pussy stretched so tight around my fist. Think I’m gonna come just looking at it.”
“Come then,” Liv moaned, pressing back against him. The Kindred were multi-orgasmic so Baird’s orgasm wouldn’t end their fun. In fact, it would help. With such a tight fit, every extra bit of lubrication was needed.
“Gonna fill you up,” Baird promised her, pressing hard against the end of her channel, and it was no idle threat. Though she’d never felt anything at this moment with a human lover, Liv could feel the hot jets as his seed coated the inside of her unprotected pussy as well as the warm liquid leaking out around the edges of where they were joined so tightly.
“Baird!” she moaned as several pearly drops of his cum slid down to coat her clit. She didn’t know if it was the same with other Kindred but with Beast Kindred, their seed seemed to act as an aphrodisiac. Her pussy was immediately more swollen and sensitive, insuring that the lightest touch would make her come again and again.
“You like that, Lilenta?” His voice was rough with lust and need. “Like the feel of my cock filling you? My cum leaking out of your hot little pussy?”
“You know I do,” she whispered, pressing back against him again. “More, Baird. Come in me again and then fuck me. Fuck me hard.”
“I’ll give it to you as hard as you need, Lilenta,” he promised, gripping her hips again. “Gonna fill you with my cum over and over tonight. Make you mine forever.”
“I’m already yours,” Liv protested breathlessly, but even as she spoke she felt a new rush of heat inside her and more of the warming liquid slipped out to flow over her folds.
With a low roar, Baird began to pump inside her, still coming as he did so. Liv moaned and gripped the duvet, trying to keep from falling over with the force of his fucking. She was so close…so close to coming again. If he would only…
Baird, she sent through the mental link which had been forged the first time they bonded. Touch me! Need you to touch me…make me come.
How about this? He varied his angle slightly and she felt something else coming into play. It was the part of him she’d learned was called the flange—a sort of extension that rose from the very base of his mating fist. The only part of it, in fact, that didn’t fit inside her. It didn’t seem to matter what position they were in, the flange was always there, ready and waiting. It cupped her clit like a firm but gentle finger and rubbed the swollen, supersensitive button just the right way as Baird rocked inside her.
It was exactly what she needed. With a moaning cry, Liv felt herself falling over the edge again, her orgasm washing through her like a warm wave as she lost herself completely in the moment.
“You like that, Lilenta?” he growled softly, gripping her hips harder. “Like it when I fuck you and make you come?”
“You…you know I do,” she gasped, barely able to breathe.
“That’s good,” he rumbled. “Because it’s going to be a long… long night. And we’re just getting started.” His voice softened and he stroked her back soothingly. “I love you, Olivia. Love you so much.”
“Show me how much.” Despite her orgasm she still wanted more. She could never get enough of him—never. Pressing back against him, she worked herself on his still-hard shaft. “Show me, Baird,” she whispered in a low, breathless voice.
“With pleasure, Lilenta.”
And he proceeded to do exactly that.